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EDITORIAL – Board may as well not have asked public about school’s name

April 24, 2024 // 12 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT WAS NO SURPRISE that the Kamloops school board chose an indigenous name for the new school in Pineview Valley. For one thing, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Councillors, staff seem to think we don’t need a full-time mayor

April 23, 2024 // 10 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. OBVIOUSLY CITY COUNCILLORS don’t think Kamloops deserves a full-time mayor any more than City administrators do. At today’s council [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Decriminalization is causing chaos in our communities’

April 23, 2024 // 7 Comments

Excerpt from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, April 22, 2024. T. Stone: Every single day there’s more damning evidence that piles up against this [Continue]

MILOBAR – Disorganized responses of NDP undermine trust on drug issues

April 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

By PETER MILOBAR MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson RECENTLY EXPOSED internal communications and firsthand accounts have revealed that drug use in B.C. hospitals is not only [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Is the mayor of Kamloops suddenly only allowed to work 9 to 5?

April 21, 2024 // 11 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. UPDATE (Sunday afternoon): Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson phoned back to say he’d found an email notifying him and councillors that access [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A modest proposal for a better citizen satisfaction survey

April 20, 2024 // 6 Comments

IT WILL SOON BE TIME for the Kamloops citizen satisfaction survey, when taxpayers will have an opportunity to say what they think of their city. The survey will be carried [Continue]